hyderabad
Telangana posted highest growth in terms of per capita income and per capita energy consumption during the last nine years, but it would have made much better progress had the Congress kept its word and given statehood to the region in 2004 itself, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president and Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhar Rao said on Monday.
Addressing election meetings at Jukkal, Banswada and Narayankhed, he said the Congress gave statehood not out of any love for Telangana people but due to inevitability. It had delayed statehood by 18 months for the second time, after announcing it in December 2009 but gave it in June 2014.